Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Southerners Deserve Better From Candidates

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Clark Gable refused to attempt to do a Southern accent in Gone with the Wind because he couldn't do one well enough; and he had enough respect for Southerners and Margaret Mitchell not to try. So he didn't try and he acted the part--and was succesful in his portrayal of a Southerner via skilled acting.

There is nothing more idiotic than the delivery of some dipsy Hollywood starlett with "You aallll come back," usually directed as a singular verb.

3 comments:

Same could be said of Erroll Flynn playing JEB Stuart in Santa Fe Trail. The farthest thing from a Southern accent...but they couldn't have found a better actor to play the swashbuckling dashing cavalier cavalryman

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Mississippi CottonPaul H.Yarbrough

About Me

Getting close to retirement age (whtaever retirement means) I have been writing and will have my first novel, Mississippi Cotton, published in 2011 by Wido Publishing. It's heavy on nostalgia (1951) and the setting is where my roots are: Mississippi.
I've written a handful of short stories, mostly flash fiction, and an essay or two. All but one have been published online. One in a print publication will be published as a reprint online in November.
I have another novel, The Tennessee Walls (not published yet) and am working on a third, A Mississippi Whisper.
Reared in Jackson, Mississippi. Married in Louisiana and live in Houston, Texas.
Went to Mississippi State, U. of Louisiana, U. of Houston undergarduate, graduate. Degrees in Math and Physics. 35 years in the Oil business in Houston